DDF News — 17 Jul 2024
DanceScapes Hip Hop Takeover at Project Arts Centre
In a special celebration of hip hop culture, DDF invited trailblazing French hip hop artists from Collectif FAIR-E to host DanceScapes 2024.
During the Festival, members of this renowned French collective came together with leading Irish hip hop artists Jessie Thompson, Jessie O’Reilly and Tobi Balogun for a week of creative labs, collaboration and community sharings at Dance Ireland.
This intensive exchange culminated in a day and night of public workshops, cyphers and hip hop performances at Project Arts Centre on 18 May, spotlighting French-Irish exchange and marking the first time that Breaking is to be included in the Olympic Games (Paris 2024).
Here’s what the artists had to say about the experience…
DanceScapes 2024 was supported by the Embassy of France in Ireland and Institut Français et la Région Bretagne.